Archive for the 'business intelligence' Category

In(tegrate) the Clouds was named as one of the 23 most influential business intelligence blogs today by Justin Heinze at BI Software Insight. It’s a great list to be a part of – thanks Justin! It’s also helpful to get the Twitter handles of all of the bloggers.

I moderated a SnapLogic webinar today focused on the market shift to business intelligence, analytics and enterprise performance management delivered in the cloud. We discussed the trends, shared some industry analyst perspectives and demonstrated the importance of cloud integration to an overall business analytics as a service strategy. Here’s the presentation. You can watch the recording when it’s posted here. As always, feedback welcome.

In 2006 I posted a presentation on Slideshare called, “What is Driving the Shift to On-Demand BI?“ While it might have been a little early in terms of cloud business intelligence adoption, looking at it today shows that most of the industry analyst predictions were actually quite conservative when it comes to cloud adoption in the enterprise. I listed the drivers for the shift to analytics as a cloud service as:

It just makes sense

Simple, simple, simple

OLTP –> OLAP

Because Gartner said so!

“Date a fad, marry a trend.” (with acknowledgement to @kellblog of course)

Recently Amazon.com announced that Redshift, their data warehouse solution, is the company’s fastest growing AWS service. Over 1000 global customers are moving significant business intelligence initiatives to Amazon’s data warehouse in the cloud. This video does a pretty nice job of explaining how it works and why the value proposition is so compelling.